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单词 peanut
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peanutn.adj.

Brit. /ˈpiːnʌt/, U.S. /ˈpiˌnət/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pea n.2, nut n.1
Etymology: < pea n.2 + nut n.1
A. n.
1.
a. Apparently (perhaps by confusion): the nut of the chinquapin, Castanea pumila. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > other nuts
walnut1553
sisyrinchium1629
Indian almond1685
breadnut?1740
peanut1794
sapucaia-nut1820
musk1827
breadnut1828
singhara1834
musk tree1835
wild chestnut1854
urucuri1860
nut palm1889
peanut1904
1794 H. Wansey Jrnl. 3 July in Jrnl. Excursion to U.S. (1796) 250 I brought from the United States with me..Of nuts, hiccory and chinquopin, or pea nuts. The latter..is very common in China, as a native Chinese told me, when dining at my house..some of those nuts being on table.
b. Originally U.S. The fruit or pod of the plant Arachis hypogaea (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), which becomes buried beneath the soil as it ripens; the edible oval seed it contains, which is often roasted. Also: the plant itself, a native of Brazil widely grown in tropical regions. Also called groundnut, monkey nut.The peanut is strictly not a nut in botanical terms: see note s.v. nut n.1 1a.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > peanut
mani1604
pindar1684
earthnut1714
groundnut1740
ground-pea1796
peanut1802
goober1833
monkey nut1880
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > nut > [noun] > peanut
groundnut1740
peanut1802
monkey nut1880
1802 W. Irving Lett. Jonathan Oldstyle in Morning Chron. (N.Y.) 1 Dec. 2/5 I amused myself with eating pea-nuts.
1807 Salmagundi 27 June 240 Young seniors go down to the flag-staff to buy peanuts, and beer.
1834 C. F. Hoffman Let. 17 Apr. in Winter in West (1835) II. 206 Wrenching it from its roots as a Lilliputian would a peanut!
1886 A. H. Church Food-grains of India 127 Half the weight of pea-nuts is oil.
1910 Encycl. Brit. XII. 625/1 In America they are consumed in large quantity as the ‘pea-nut’; but are not much appreciated in England except by the poorer children, who know them as ‘monkey-nuts’.
1937 A. F. Hill Econ. Bot. xvi. 358 The peanut is a native of Brazil but was early carried to the Old World tropics by the Portuguese explorers. It was brought to Virginia from Africa by the slaves and is now one of the most important crops of the south.
1967 N. Freeling Strike Out 96 His wife was..reading Proust and eating peanuts.
1979 W. Styron Sophie's Choice xvi. 490 Peanuts have to have a lot of sunshine and a long frost-free growing period.
2003 Black Men Oct. 98 Also includes a lower shelving area for storing chips, peanuts or any of your favorite snacks.
c. Chiefly with distinguishing word: any of certain other plants whose fruit matures on or under the surface of the ground, spec. the Bambara groundnut, Vigna (Voandzeia) subterranea; the fruit of these plants.hog-peanut: see hog n.1 Compounds 2e.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > other nuts
walnut1553
sisyrinchium1629
Indian almond1685
breadnut?1740
peanut1794
sapucaia-nut1820
musk1827
breadnut1828
singhara1834
musk tree1835
wild chestnut1854
urucuri1860
nut palm1889
peanut1904
1904 N.E.D. Peanut,..Also applied to allied plants of similar character (or their fruit), as Voandzeia subterranea of Madagascar, Africa, and S. America, and Amphicarpæa monoica of N. America.
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Peanut, the Bambara groundnut.
1980 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 21 96 Voandzeia [subterranea]..is possibly indigenous to West Africa, where it is commonly known as the earthnut or, because of its widespread distribution in the Upper Niger basin, the Bambara peanut.
2. colloquial (originally U.S.).
a. A small, unintelligent, or unimportant person (see also quots. 1945, 1968).
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant
unknownc1390
pawnc1450
semi-cipher?1550
bauble1570
Jack with the feather1581
nobody1583
winterling1585
squash1600
rush candle1628
niflec1635
nullity1657
nonentity1710
featherweight1812
underscrub1822
nyaff1825
small fish1836
no-account1840
little fish1846
peanut1864
commonplacer1874
sparrow-fart1886
Little Willie1901
pipsqueak1905
nebbish1907
pie-biter1911
blob1916
smallie1930
no-count1932
zilch1933
Mickey Mouse1935
muzhik1945
nerd1951
nothingburger1953
nerk1955
non-person1959
no-mark1982
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > simpleton
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chicken1600
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squab1640
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ninny-whoop1653
softhead1654
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greenhorn1672
sumph1682
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sillyton1708
gaby?1746
gobbin?1746
green goose1768
nin-a-kin1787
Jacob1811
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greeny1834
softhorn1836
sucker1838
softie1850
dope1851
soft1854
verigreen1854
peanut1864
daftie1872
josser1886
naïf1891
yapc1894
barm-stick1924
knobhead1931
sook1933
nig-nog1953
sawn1953
pronk1959
stiffy1965
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing > typical examples of
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pear1340
hair1377
flea1388
a pin's head (also point)c1450
fitch1550
mouse1584
minnow1596
the pestle of a lark1598
nutshella1616
pinhead1662
pinpoint1670
rope yarn1751
bee's knee1797
peanut1864
postage stamp1881
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > one outside conventional society
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come-outer1840
pagan1841
Bohemian1843
Greenwich Villager1887
weirdie1894
outsider1907
white nigger1934
beardo1935
isolate1942
weirdo1955
beat1958
beatnik1958
boho1958
beatster1959
way out1959
hippie1966
rebetis1966
homeboy1967
peanut1968
Yippie1968
suedehead1970
Goth1986
grebo1987
hipster1989
1864 ‘M. Twain’ in N.Y. Sunday Mercury 21 Feb. 3/4 I am no peanut... I could invent some little remedies that would stir up a commotion,..if I chose to try.
1871 F. Remington Let. 9 Mar. (1988) 9 They are no little ‘pea nuts’ but regular ‘square-toed’ veterans.
1923 E. Paul Impromptu 265 Such a peanut, to run a press.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. viii. 157 Peanut, a simple-minded soldier.
1963 Australasian Post (Melbourne) 14 Mar. 51/1 ‘And what’, I asked cheerfully, ‘was this peanut's particular whinge?’
1968 Daily Mail 16 Mar. 6/4 Mods are the traditional enemies of Rockers, but there were no Mods that night... ‘They're scared of us... We call them peanuts.’
1995 Sydney Morning Herald 23 Aug. 29 (cartoon caption) ‘Young Alec Dilbry has just been made our head office manager!’ ‘Manager! No! What has that peanut ever managed?’
b. In plural. A small or relatively insignificant sum of money, esp. when regarded as inadequate remuneration; (sometimes more generally) a small, trivial, or unimportant matter.
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum
parcelc1400
plack1530
dodkinc1555
triflec1595
denier1597
driblet1659
song1698
Flanders-fortune1699
pin money1702
doit1728
drab1828
picayune1838
sprat1883
shoestring1904
peanut1910
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial > types of
venialc1380
nutshalea1393
nutshella1400
flea-biting1553
flea-bite1577
nothing1577
epitomea1593
quilicoma1644
ephemera1751
pinprick1853
bibelot1873
piffle1884
peanut1910
popcorn1964
trivia1968
factoid1982
1849 H. Melville Redburn viii. 60 Tom was a very honest treasurer, and never spent the Society's money for peanuts.]
1910 O. Johnson Varmint xi. 156 ‘That's a hard one!’ ‘Peanuts!’ ‘Let me think.’
1930 J. Lait Put on Spot 208 Peanuts,..small money.
1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? viii. 176 They got you working for peanuts.
1959 J. Osborne World Paul Slickey ii. x. 87 There's a thousand pounds a week from record sales..it ain't peanuts.
1966 L. Coulthard in Director Aug. 228/1 If you pay in peanuts, you must expect to get monkeys.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Jan. 29/2 All this is peanuts compared to the steady core of 3,600 ministers who make up the United Church clergy.
1973 Scotsman 13 Feb. 8/5 A salary of £3000 a year is peanuts for a man at the top of his profession.
2002 N.Y. Times 12 May iv. 5/2 Tax relief for those who need it least and the rest of the country gets peanuts.
3. Electronics. = peanut valve n. at Compounds 2. Now rare.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > thermionic valve > [noun] > vacuum tube or thermionic valve
vacuum tube1859
trigger tube1894
audion1906
pliotron1915
diode1919
electron tube1919
negatron1919
pentode1919
power valve1919
tetrode1919
triode valve1919
magnetron1921
bright emitter1923
peanut valve1923
peanut1924
power tube1924
multiple valve1929
thyratron1929
heptode1932
hexode1933
pentagrid1933
acorn tube1934
octode1934
triode-pentode1936
triode-hexode1937
transitron1939
trochotron1947
steering diode1957
1924 Wireless Weekly 8 Oct. 744/2 Seven valves (all ‘peanuts’), used successively as first detector, oscillator valve, three stages of intermediate frequency, second detector valve, and one stage of transformer-coupled note-magnification.
4. North American colloquial. A small piece of foam, of a type used in large quantities in packing containers to prevent damage to the objects within the containers during shipping or storage. Usually in plural.
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1977 N.Y. Times 2 Jan. (New Jersey Weekly section) 2/1 A formidable box filled with foam peanuts that kept Kong from jouncing about.
1991 Garbage Jan. 74/1 (advt.) Innovative, new, low-density paper packaging... Environmentally responsive replacement for plastic wrap, foam and peanuts.
2002 M. Collier Starting eBay Business for Dummies xvii. 301 When packing with peanuts, be sure you place the item carefully and use enough peanuts to fill the box completely.
B. adj. (attributive).
colloquial (originally and chiefly North American). Insignificant, trivial, worthless; tiny, puny, undersized. See also peanut politician n., peanut politics n. at Compounds 2.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > worthless
naughteOE
unworthc960
nought worthOE
unworthya1240
vaina1300
lewd1362
base?1510
to be nothing toc1520
stark naught1528
nothing worth1535
worthilessa1542
draffish1543
baggage1548
dunghill?1555
valureless1563
toyish1572
worthless1573
out (forth) of door (also doors)1574
leaden1577
riff-raff1577
drafty1582
fecklessc1586
dudgeon?1589
nought-worth1589
tenpenny1592
wanwordy?a1595
shotten herring1598
nugatory1603
unvalued1604
priceless1614
unvaluable1615
valuelessa1616
waste1616
trashya1620
draffy1624
stramineous1624
invaluable1640
roly-poly?1645
nugatorious1646
perquisquilian1647
niffling1649
lazy1671
wanworth1724
little wortha1754
flimsy1756
waff1788
null1790
nothingy1801
nothingly1802
twopenny-halfpenny1809
not worth a flaw1810
garbage1817
peanut1836
duffing1839
trash1843
no-account1845
no-count1851
punky1859
rummagy1872
junky1880
skilligalee1883
footle1894
punk1896
wherry-go-nimble1901
junk1908
rinky-dink1913
schlock1916
tripe1927
duff1938
chickenshit1940
sheg-up1941
expendable1942
(strictly) for the birds1943
tripey1955
schlocky1960
naff1964
dipshit1968
cack1978
1836 W. Dunlap Thirty Years Ago II. iii. 25 They were your pea-nut fellows, I suppose.
1854 Congress. Globe 19 May 1230/3 I know them—a set of peanut agitators and Peter Funk philanthropists.
1892 Congress. Rec. 18 June 5394/2 This country is not a peanut institution; it is a great country.
1910 G. B. McCutcheon Rose in Ring 203 I suppose that peanut aristocrat friend of yours has told you it ain't swell or proper to wear tights.
1940 R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely xxxiii. 157 Hell, I thought he sold reefers. With the right protection behind him. But hell, that's a small-time racket. A peanut grift.
1990 Indian Express (Madras) 31 Jan. 7/2 More than 8,000 applicants are waiting for a phone connection under the Kodambakkam exchange area... Peanut additions made periodically will not clear the backlog.
1996 Loaded Sept. 198/1 Piss boys will be on call for jocks with peanut bladders.

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a.
peanut digger n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1644/1 Peanut-digger, a kind of plow with trailing branches, which raises from the soil the vines with the nuts attached, and leaves them strung upon the surface of the ground, to be afterward gathered and picked by hand or by machine.
1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 3 Aug. He..worked as a fisherman at Pialba,..a pineapple and banana picker at Nambour and a peanut digger at Kingaroy.
peanut farmer n.
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1891 N.Y. Times 8 June 4/6 Peanuts were worth 80 cents a bushel last Fall, but many of the peanut farmers held their crops in expectation of a rise.
1956 Times 1 Dec. 4 (advt.) New techniques bringing new plenty to the Virginian peanut-farmer.
2003 Daily Oklahoman (Okla. City) (Nexis) 1 Nov. 1 b The dry weather has been a blessing for peanut farmers in the Southwest.
peanut farming n.
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1908 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times 29 Oct. 9/1 (headline) Widow successful at peanut farming.
1939 Florida: Guide to Southernmost State (Federal Writers' Project) i. 84 Peanut farming keeps a number of factories busy, shelling, cleaning, and grading the nuts.
2000 S. Colatrella in C. B. Mwaria et al. Afr. Visions iv. 37 This crisis of peanut farming is directly responsible for the collective choice of migration by Mouride members.
peanut oil n.
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1864 Sci. Amer. 23 Jan. 56/1 Porpoise oil is used chiefly for clocks and small tools... Peanut oil is also used.
1912 A. H. Lewis Apaches N.Y. 132 He trimmed the peanut-oil lamp.
2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 282 I suggested peanut oil instead of canola, like we use in New York.
peanut picker n.
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1868 Sci. Amer. 23 Dec. 411/5 Peanut picker.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1644/1 Peanut-picker, a machine for separating pea nuts or the pods of leguminous plants from their vines.
1992 Canad. Living Aug. 30/1 Camiel Duwyn..operates the peanut picker, pulling the last rows of plants out of the light soil to reveal clusters of peanuts amid the roots.
peanut sauce n.
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1883 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 5 571 There were delicious fried bananas, pounded pea-nut sauce with roast chicken, ‘palm-oil chop’, and many other native dishes.
1955 G. W. Shepherd They wait in Darkness iii. 36 There was a chicken broth to begin with, then chicken, beef, and goat meat, with rice and matoke and peanut sauce.
2003 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Mar. 180/3 A previous trip to the ER came from a bad reaction to takeout food that had a trace of peanut sauce from another dish.
peanut seller n.
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1879 Daily Republican (Decatur, Illinois) 5 Dec. 2/2 The patrons of the obscure policy shops are shine-em-up boys, peanut sellers, apple women, hotel waiters, newsboys and others of similar classes.
1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird iii. 33 Peanut-sellers and newsvendors have free access to the front door.
2004 Indian Express (Nexis) 30 Jan. A peanut seller was reportedly thrown out of the Saharanpur-Moradabad train by some youths, following an altercation over the payment for peanuts.
peanut shell n.
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1852 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 5 Jan. 1/2 And now Old Time has cleared the Stage Of lemon-peel and peanut shells.
a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) iii. 105 The floor..was littered from end to end with scattered grain—oats, wheat, corn, and barley, with wisps of hay, peanut shells, apple parings, and orange peel.
1996 J. McCormick & S. Fisher-Hoch Level 4: Virus Hunters of CDC xxv. 232 The envelope [of a virus]..can be pulled around during the process of preparing it so that it can be seen under the electron microscope, and stretched into many different shapes, including one that resembles a peanut shell.
peanut vender n.
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1854 N.-Y. Daily Times 5 Sept. 4/3 A railroad does something for a place more than by..furnishing to a crippled peanut-vender employment for his time.
1910 G. B. McCutcheon Rose in Ring 56 The lowliest peanut-vender was laughing in his sleeve at the sleuth.
1997 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 26 Jan. 1 b Vineyard representatives moved through the crowd..throwing packets of tissues to the audience like peanut venders.
peanut vendor n.
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1872 N.Y. Herald 20 Sept. 3/4 All kinds of visitors, from the élite of the neighboring districts down to the lager beer, candy and peanut vendors.
1978 S. Naipaul North of South ii. v. 209 The peanut vendor was guilty of waging capitalist war against socialist society.
1994 H. Holland Born in Soweto i. 19 Three bright braziers burn hectically on the roadside, in preparation for peanut vendors and those who will come to roast mealie cobs.
b.
peanut-brained adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective]
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woolly-headed1883
leaden-natured1889
suet-headed1890
sam-sodden1891
dopey1896
turnip-headed1898
bonehead1903
wool-witted1905
peanut-headed1906
peanut-brained1907
dilly1909
torpid-minded1909
retardate1912
nitwitted1917
meat-headed1918
mug1922
cloth-headed1925
loopy1925
nitwit1928
lame-brained1929
dead from the neck up1930
simpy1932
nail-headed1936
square-headed1936
dingbats1937
pinhead1939
dim-witted1940
pea-brained1942
clueless1943
lobotomized1943
retarded1949
pointy-headed1950
clottish1952
like a stunned mullet1953
silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954
out to lunch1955
pin-brained1958
dozy1959
eejity1964
out of one's tiny mind1965
doofus1967
twitty1967
twittish1969
twatty1975
twattish1976
blur1977
dof1979
goofus1981
dickheaded1991
dickish1991
numpty1992
cockish1996
1907 W. A. Sunday in Oxford (Iowa) Mirror 11 July 1/4 Anybody who disagrees with us is a beetle-browed, hog-jowled, peanut-brained son of perdition.
1990 J. Bitumen Personal Vendetta (BNC) 21 This joke points the finger at anarchy This joke is peanut-brained presidents.
C2.
peanut boy n. North American a boy who sells peanuts and other wares.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of nuts
nut seller1648
peanut boy1857
chestnut-roaster1909
1857 Porter's Spirit of Times 5 Sept. 12/1 At length the mare reached the quarter pole, where a little pea-nut boy had stationed himself.
1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xxxvi. 333 In the cars,..the peanut-boy..always hands you out a book of murders if you are fond of theology.
1998 Calgary (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 7 July 35 So, now I'm a ‘peanut boy’ and I walk up and down in the stands selling various items from peanuts to skittles.
peanut brittle n. originally U.S. a brittle toffee containing roasted peanuts.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > toffee
taffy1817
Everton toffee1822
toffeea1825
hardbake1825
stickjaw1827
tom trot1829
tameletjie1838
butterscotch1847
peanut candy1856
caramel1884
treacle toffee1885
Harrogate toffee1890
brittle1892
peanut brittle1892
saltwater taffy1894
brickle1907
spin1913
hokey-pokey1939
1892 Los Angeles Times 2 Oct. 16/2 We are going to introduce a new line of peanut brittle..from which we expect large sales.
1965 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 14 Feb. (1970) 244 Luci came bounding in this morning, to give her daddy a box of peanut brittle for his Valentine.
1992 Canad. Living Aug. 30/1 Out front, shelves hold sacks of peanut clusters, peanut brittle, enough salted peanuts to satisfy busloads of visitors, and bird feed.
peanut bum n. U.S. College slang (now historical and rare) (chiefly at Yale University) a celebration by a student society in which the students scramble for a large quantity of peanuts emptied over the floor of the society's hall; cf. bum n.6 2.The entertainment appears to have arisen in the 1860s and been curtailed in the early 1880s.
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1871 L. H. Bagg Four Years at Yale i. i. 76 By the time he becomes a Junior or Senior, he hardly thinks of his society at all, save when he..is invited to a play or ‘peanut bum’.
1876 Yale Literary Mag. Nov. 101 Δ. Κ. had its annual peanut bum on Saturday evening.
1880 Columbia Spectator (Columbia Univ, N.Y.) 20 Apr. 68/2 The freshmen have had a reckless and exciting ‘peanut bum’.
2002 A. Robbins Secrets of Tomb ii. 55 On some occasions or at the end of literary activities, the society would hold a ‘peanut bum’.
peanut candy n. U.S. candy containing whole roasted peanuts; a piece of this.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > toffee
taffy1817
Everton toffee1822
toffeea1825
hardbake1825
stickjaw1827
tom trot1829
tameletjie1838
butterscotch1847
peanut candy1856
caramel1884
treacle toffee1885
Harrogate toffee1890
brittle1892
peanut brittle1892
saltwater taffy1894
brickle1907
spin1913
hokey-pokey1939
1856 H. B. Stowe Dred I. iv. 51 Dancing, flirting, writing love-letters, and all other enormities down to eating pea-nut candy.
1901 B. Matthews Notes on Speech-making 53 Some postprandial addresses..resemble the peanut candy where you cannot see the candy for the peanuts.
1998 K. L. Harris & F. N. Pike in E. Sinn Last Half Cent. of Chinese Overseas ii. viii. 123 Throughout Europe, the Zhejiang Chinese, too, were hit severely by the Great Depression. In the Netherlands, many of them turned to selling peanut candy as well.
peanut gallery n. colloquial (freq. depreciative) the top gallery in a theatre or cinema, usually the location of the cheapest seats and hence regarded as the most vocal or rowdy section of the audience; also in extended use.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > gallery
gallery1690
sky-parlour1747
amphitheatre1859
paradise1864
peanut gallery1876
nigger heaven1878
1876 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 10 June 2/1 As a bid for applause from the political pit and peanut gallery it was a masterpiece.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. 2476/2 The syrinx was used by the Romans as a noisy improvement on hissing... The occupants of our peanut galleries, however, use it indiscriminately for praise or blame.
1945 New Yorker 5 May 15/1 We were sitting in the peanut gallery of the Opera House.
1988 R. Caron Jojo i. 7 Chip..had plenty of encouragement from his private ‘peanut gallery’ of retired oldsters who sat day after day on a flat bench in front of the garage.
2003 Sacramento Bee (Nexis) 25 Dec. h1 Along comes another blast from the peanut gallery about the men being interview subjects.
peanut girl n. North American a girl who sells peanuts and other wares.
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1842 ‘J. Cypress, Jr.’ Sporting Scenes II. 68 I once knocked down a little peanut girl.
1869 E. C. Steadman Blameless Prince 121 A newsboy and a peanut-girl Like little Fauns began to caper.
1989 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 12 June 1 a Peanut men in bow ties, peanut girls in lipstick, red skirts and dark, curly hair.
peanut-parcher n. U.S. slang = peanut roaster n. (b).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > puffing or hissing
peanut roaster1872
peanut-parcher1913
1913 Atlanta Constit. 18 Oct. 6/5 This afternoon a peanut parcher—canopied wagon type—exploded on Broad street while a busy crowd was on the sidewalk near it.
1929 W. Faulkner Sartoris iii. viii. 261 ‘Narcissa'll take you..in her car.’.. ‘In that little peanut-parcher?’
1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 228 The diminutive locomotive and its shrill peanut-parcher whistle.
peanut politician n. U.S. colloquial a practitioner of peanut politics.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > politician > [noun] > small-minded or parochial
folk-mooter1645
peanut politician1888
parish pumper1905
1888 N.Y. Times 18 Mar. 10/5 The business men of the country, who are the greatest sufferers from the peanut politicians' ways, must arise and assert themselves.
1931 W. G. McAdoo Crowded Years xii. 191 Any Democratic Cabinet, if not actually deficient mentally, consists of adolescents and small peanut politicians.
2002 Omaha (Nebraska) World Herald (Nexis) 17 Feb. 11 b That kind of language neither added to nor detracted from Lay's reputation but made a U.S. senator sound like a peanut politician.
peanut politics n. U.S. colloquial petty politics, political action inspired by mean or narrow motives; (formerly also) politics carried out in an underhand or secretive way.
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1887 N.Y. Times 23 Apr. 1/7 Peanut politics, a dunderhead of a presiding officer, and a three-pound mallet bone made this one of the most memorable days in the history of the Senate.
1943 Sun (Baltimore) 4 June 12/3 Peanut politics..is not part of my make-up. My only interest shall be, as it has always been in the past, in the people of my district and the public generally.
1997 Honolulu Star-Bull. (Electronic ed.) 9 Jan. Too often, in our Legislature in particular, we focus on peanut politics rather than being visionary and community-minded.
peanut roaster n. (a) a machine in which peanuts are roasted; (b) U.S. slang, a vehicle, piece of machinery, etc., that puffs or hisses.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun]
reeler1598
driver1659
rubber1747
heading machine1795
bruiser1809
finisher1835
stripper1835
physionotype1836
rotary1836
tetraspaston1842
netting-machine1846
speeder1847
dresser1855
spacer1857
starcher1862
bronzing liquid, machine1865
finishing machine1869
grader1869
brain machine1872
peanut roaster1872
bending machine1874
screw-machine1876
tire-upsetting-machine1877
buncher?1881
flax-breaker1889
oscillator1889
fluoroscope1893
fluorometer1897
mucker1916
spray dryer1921
paver1926
teabagger1940
burster1950
icemaker1953
laminator1958
slipform (concrete) paver1958
extruder1959
Zamboni1965
manipulator1968
wave machine1968
pipelayer1969
walking machine1971
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [noun] > puffing or hissing
peanut roaster1872
peanut-parcher1913
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > cookers for nuts or corn
popper1862
peanut roaster1872
chestnut-roaster1909
1872 Portsmouth (Ohio) Times 7 Sept. His constituency, if they elect him, should provide him with a peanut roaster and a bound copy of Jack, the Giant Killer, by way of a diploma.
1891 in M. Fielder Railroads of Black Hills (1964) 125 ‘Betsey’, engine No. 1, has been designated as ‘peanut roaster’, ‘dinkey’, and ‘wheelbarrow’.
1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 116 Peanut roaster, an intake manifold with a leak.
1999 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 17 Jan. c18 [He] bought a peanut roaster and offered salted and chocolate-coated nuts as a specialty.
peanut stand n. chiefly North American a booth, stall, or stand where peanuts, etc., are sold; frequently as the type of a small-scale business enterprise.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > for sale of food or drink
shamblec1305
flesh-stall14..
fisher-stall1572
fish-stall1818
whelk-stall1842
coffee stall1850
poultry stall1852
peanut stand1853
raw bar1914
doggery1930
pannam1972
1853 N.-Y. Daily Times 13 Aug. 3/4 A desperate rush; peanut stands and peanuts scattered to the winds; four genteel young men..seek refuge behind as many lamp posts.
1862 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 8 Feb. (1917) I. iii. 67 He hasn't business talent enough to carry on a peanut stand.
1947 Time 27 Jan. 58/2 He was always dabbling shrewdly in dry cleaning stores and peanut stands.
2003 Fort Pierce (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 27 Oct. b6 [He] operated the peanut stand for many years at the old Tote-A-Poke Grocery on Okeechobee Road.
peanut valve n. Electronics a type of small thermionic triode valve requiring a low current and having a relatively long life.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > thermionic valve > [noun] > vacuum tube or thermionic valve
vacuum tube1859
trigger tube1894
audion1906
pliotron1915
diode1919
electron tube1919
negatron1919
pentode1919
power valve1919
tetrode1919
triode valve1919
magnetron1921
bright emitter1923
peanut valve1923
peanut1924
power tube1924
multiple valve1929
thyratron1929
heptode1932
hexode1933
pentagrid1933
acorn tube1934
octode1934
triode-pentode1936
triode-hexode1937
transitron1939
trochotron1947
steering diode1957
1923 G. Parr Princ. & Pract. Wireless Transmission viii. 119 A valve which has proved very popular in America both on account of its size and low current consumption is that known as the Polar ‘Pea-nut’ valve. The bulb is tubular, its dimensions being 2 in. long by ½ in. diameter, and is fitted with a bayonet cap similar to the ordinary incandescent bulb.
1930 B.B.C. Year-bk. 1931 448/2 Peanut Valve, a type of three-electrode receiving valve requiring low filament current and anode voltage.
peanut worm n. = sipunculan n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Sipunculoidea > [noun] > member of
peanut worm1939
sipunculan1968
1939 Amer. Midland Naturalist 21 36 The peanut worm Physcosoma agassizi, with it[s] dendritic spread of tentacles, is able to use plankton.
1951 J. Steinbeck & E. F. Ricketts Log from ‘Sea of Cortez’ x. 77 The reef was gradually exposed... Rock oysters there were, and oysters; limpets and sponges; corals of two types; peanut worms; [etc.].
1998 S. C. Morris Crucible of Creation vii. 169 A few phyla, notably the chaetognaths (arrow worms) and sipunculans (peanut worms), show a remarkable invariance of form. One peanut worm looks very much like another.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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